Whats your top 5 favorite movies of all time, and why? With short answer below.

Mine.

1: tekkon kinkreet. Excellent atmosphere of the town, has its own life.. Poignant moments, off-beat plot and progression. Some truly excellent characters, unique vision and beautiful animation.

2.the shining. Love the atmosphere of the hotel (i love hotels) love shelly duvalls performance, and the scenery of the movie. Plot that leaves you bewildered, and tons of analysis and research has been done on its plot and hidden messages.

3: ponyo, cosy movie.. Need i say more ? Its just heart-warming and cute. Excellent drawings.

4. Fallen Angels (1995) drifter story, place to place, no firm foundations.. I like the place he is staying ;--p hidden and cute little shack. 

5: lost in translation. I like hotels and travelling lulz. 

Now share urs :---) xoxo. 

1. Back to the Future(Trilogy)
2. E.T.
3. Terminator 2
4.Big Trouble in Little China
5. The Exorcist

All for the same reasons, great movies and bring back good childhood memories.

1. The Crow
2. Happy Gilmore
3. Wizard of Oz
4. O brother where art thou
5. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

1. The Super Mario Brothers Movie
1. The Super Mario Brothers Movie
1. The Super Mario Brothers Movie
1. The Super Mario Brothers Movie
1. The Super Mario Brothers Movie

1. The Shawshank Redemption - I really, really liked this movie because of its characters, the story and its plot twists. It progresses pretty well towards the ending, which was satisfying as hell.

2. Over the Hedge - Quirky and funny. To be honest, I haven't seen another animated movie this entertaining. On a summer, I would watch this movie every night. I remember one night watching it like 3 consecutive times. And I NEVER got tired of it.

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - The characters made this movie for me. That evil Nurse Ratched...

4. Inception - Had one of the most ambiguous endings in cinema. Movie overall was solid, the dream machine made some sense. But the ending let people wondering what really happened, and I loved that.

5. Collateral - The ambience was tense and it was nice to see Los Angeles from a grittier perspective. One of my favorite performances from Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.

And that's that. There are some other movies I need to see.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (If I must choose only one...) - Duh.
2. The Silence of the Lambs - Classic performances, great soundtrack, amazing writing and dark scenes.
3. Finding Nemo - Best CGI-animated movie out there. Soundtrack is wonderful and it brings back memories.

I can only give you a top three because after that it gets really ambiguous. I still have a humungous backlog to get through.

Pretty tough and loaded question, hard to distill it down for sure.

1. It's a Wonderful Life
- Story about a man pushed to the brink and on the verge of suicide until god sends down a guardian Angel who shows him what the world would be like if he had never been born. Timeless classic for all times of the year, not just during the Christmas Season.

2. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
- Westerns are one of my favorite genres, and this film is tough to beat. Amazing score and a classic story weaving through the American Civil War

3. Dark Knight
- Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker, best comic book movie of All Time

4. High Noon
- Again with the Western Genre. Emphasizing a sheriff's "duty", regardless of the outcome and consequences culminating in a gun fight at "High Noon". Scene with the clock as he is writing his will and testament still stands as one of the best in cinematic history

5. Die Hard
- Would be the greatest movie set during Christmas time if "It's a Wonderful life" didn't exist, always a fun romp and arguably the best action movie of all time. Alan Rickman is very memorable here as well.

http://letterboxd.com/cinebro/list/they-shoot-pictures-dont-they-1000-greatest/

i use theyshootpictures for reference, very unbiased and knows their stuff. Ill be sure to watch wonderful life, seems like an original plot. And havent seen good,bad ugly either :1) thnx for sharing!

5. Seven Samurai

Kurosawa's finest. Spectacular action, powerful storytelling, amazing on a technical and artistic level

4. L'Atalante

A minimalist masterpiece about romance, marriage, and compromise. Largely plotless, L'Atalante is all about capturing those fleeting moments that burn into our memories

3. Bicycle Thieves

A brilliant and sometimes devastating story about the strength of family and the desperation of life in post-war Europe. Filmed mostly with amateur actors and shot entirely on location, Bicycle Thieves stands as a shining jewel in the neorealist movement

2. Vertigo

Hitchcock is responsible for a dozen great movies, but none is as complicated, mesmerizing, or powerful as Vertigo. Cerebral, layered, and dreamlike, Vertigo is a difficult, haunting movie, one that shows a master at his creative peak

1. Citizen Kane

Forget about the technical breakthroughs, the inventive camera movements and angles, the masterful use of light, shadow, and perspective. Forget about the influential narrative style, moving forward and backward in time arriving at a perfect ending. At its core, stripped of all the achievements in set design, make-up, cinematography, and editing, Citizen Kane tells a moving, meaningful story about idealism, ambition, greed, friendship, betrayal, and, ultimately, loneliness. A monumental achievement in cinema, on every front.

I don't have a top 5, so I'll just put five movies I like a lot (a bit of a random sampling of my top 50ish):

Princess Mononoke-Its been my favorite Ghibli film since I first saw it. The entire story is amazing, the animation is beautiful, the characters are interesting, the themes are spot on. Brilliant movie.
2001: A Space Odyssey-So much to like about this movie, from its realistic depiction of space, to its handling of AI, to its brilliant direction...
Blues Brothers-Greatest car chase scene in movie history, and its got some pretty great music too.
Paprika-All of Satoshi Kon's works that I've seen have been brilliant, but Paprika is my favorite so far. So twisted and imaginative and beautiful.
Evil Dead 2-The first 30 minutes of this film are, in my opinion, the greatest 30 minutes of the horror/comedy genre, with the last 30 minutes of Evil Dead 1 probably being the second greatest...